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Windows 7: messed up reboot win 7 update reboot

hi guys,need help ,
thanks in advance , i purchased this win 7 prof. about 4 weeks ago and i still have not got to run it .i installed it on a new hd 150 gb hd. went in just fine setup a few things user accounts went to activate setup my usb ,in house wireless adp. from locak wi-fi .downloaded mail setup worked fine ,shut it down . it started loading win updates .message [do not turn computer off. durong update. ] when i rebooted it went into startup repair . it couldn't repair itself .i tried sys recovery from restore point. it said it wasn;t there . which i did create one . just so happened i did make a image file . used it to restore.next down load ,same thing .
i did severial clean installs, made copies of image files, but every time i down load any file that requires a reboot .right back into startup repair can not use it for anything . just goes around and around . can any one help . i have tried everything found on the inter net ,and most all of it does the same thing if it requires a reboot, ready to go mad .even tried safe mode ,and last good known startup.nothing works but .image file.
joe

i don't download updates ! yes this is what i am doing now .i did a download of 2 anti virus programs installed each 1 at a time at different times . and when rebooted . i had to reload image file startup repair it will not repair it ,it just will not go into windows . let me just say that anything that i do download except a couple of drivers, that did reboot successfully. but! anything else that requries a reboot to be able to run, programs or updates crashes, and goes into startup repair again .which will not recognize any system restore points . i have tried up to at least 5 restore points in the same repair .and it only excepts the image disk to restore . i have shut down updates a couple times and when i turn off and back on some how it turnes itself back on .
if i do dot notice it when i shut down it will go into update install .i just cannot seem to win with this system i have ordered a new video card with 512 mb memory and try that . i have replaced everything else . any suggestions would help thanks . sorry i took so long to get back i had to find out how to repost .
joe
p. s. what do you call a fresh install i have formatted the disk to a raw drive ,deleted all but the 1 partion and reinstalled how do you do a fresh install am i right or wrong. thanks again!
joe

What do you mean that you don't download Updates? If you don't have Win7 fullly Updated with all Important and Optional Windows Updates - except for Bingware or any that you know for sure you don't need (e.g. for IE10 when you have IE11) - then you don't have Windows 7. You have an un-patched mess.

hi
well thats the way i feel about it .if you can't download update, its not win 7, but like i said if i do download updates ,and it asks to reboot win 7 crashes, and will not reboot in to windows without a image file. it does somthing to the reboot files
joe

hi thanks for message,
its been here for a while but never opened until i got the win 7 disks. mem ,or ram 3 gb just purchased and the computer with the old hd ,and 512 mbs ram. ran xp pro. for years everything else seems to run great .
joe

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